DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Undergraduate & MSc Handbook 2018/19

WELCOME TO LSE

Key Dates

Academic Year 2018–2019

Michaelmas Term Thursday 27 September – Friday 14 December 2018

Lent Term Monday 14 January – Friday 29 March 2019

Summer Term Monday 29 April – Friday 14 June 2019

The School will also be closed on English public holidays. In 2018/2019 these will be:

Christmas Closure Friday 21 December – Monday 31 December 2018

New Year’s Day Holiday Monday 1 January 2019

Easter Closure Thursday 18 – Wednesday 24 April 2019

May Bank Holiday Monday 6 May 2019

Spring Bank Holiday Monday 27 May 2019

Summer Bank Holiday Monday 26 August 2019

LSE Term Dates and School Closures (for reference)

Academic Year 2019-2020

Michaelmas Term Monday 30 September – Friday 13 December 2019

Lent Term Monday 20 January – Friday 3 April 2020

Summer Term Tuesday 5 May – Friday 19 June 2020

The School will also be closed on English public holidays. In 2019/2020 these will be:

Christmas Closure Monday 23 – Tuesday 31 December 2019

New Year’s Day Holiday Wednesday 1 January 2020

Easter Closure Thursday 9 – Wednesday 15 April 2020

May Bank Holiday Monday 4 May 2020

Spring Bank Holiday Monday 25 May 2020

Summer Bank Holiday Monday 31 August 2020

Contents

School Reading Weeks 2

Department of Statistics Welcome 3

About Your Department 5Undergraduate 5Masters 5

Professional Services Offices 6

The Role of the Academic Mentor 7

Course Administration 8Personal Timetables 8Auditing Courses 8Assessment Type 8Coursework Submission 8Late Submission 8Marking and Grading of Courses (MSc) 8Marking and Grading of Courses (BSc) 8Assessment Offences 9Study Guidelines 9Moodle 9MSc Study Room 10Undergraduate Common Room 10The LSE Library 10

General School and Academic Regulations 11What To Do If You Are Ill During Your Studies 11Fit to Sit Policy 11Codes of Good Practice 11Classification Schemes 12Interruption/Deferral/ Withdrawal/Mode of Study 12

Student Support Services 13New Arrivals Information and Orientation 13Certificate of Registration 13LSE Careers 13LSE Volunteer Centre 13Fees 13International Student Immigration 13Visa Advice Team (ISVAT) 13Services for Disabled Students 14The Language Centre 14LSE Students’ Union 14The Faith Centre 14LSE Student Counselling Service 14Peer Support for undergraduate students 15LSE Day Nursery 15Student Services Centre (SSC) 15LSE LIFE 15Financial Support Office (FSO) 17LSE for You 17Email 17IT Support 17Student Teaching Surveys 17Equality and Diversity at LSE 17Access Guides to LSE Buildings 18Graduation 18Alumni Association 18Staff Student Liaison Committee (SSLC) 19Communications 19Student Newsletters 19

Student Prizes 20Undergraduate Prizes 20MSc Student Prizes 20

Course Choices 21

Staff Contacts 22 – 23

LSE Hub 24

School Reading Weeks

LSE Reading Weeks take place on the following dates: MT – week beginning 5th November 2018 LT – week beginning 18th February 2019

Please note that not all lecturers observe reading weeks. Some lecturers may still schedule lectures/classes but use the time for revision or problem-solving exercises. Others may choose to teach through Week 6 but leave Week 11 free for a revision week. Please check with the course teacher if you are unsure, particularly for those courses run by other Departments.

Undergraduate StudentsPlease check your personal timetables or refer to the course guide for individual courses.

MSc StudentsPlease see the table below:

Course Term Arrangements for Reading Week

ST405 Multivariate Methods LT Week 6 Reading Week

ST409 Stochastic Processes MT Week 6 Reading Week (please double check with ST409 teacher)

ST411 Generalised Linear Modelling and Survival Analysis LT Week 6 Reading Week

ST416 Multilevel Modelling LT Week 6 Reading Week

ST422 Time Series MT Week 6 Reading Week (exercises given out to do at home)

ST425 Statistical Inference: Principal Methods and Computation MT Teaching during Week 6. Revision week in Week 11

ST426 Applied Stochastic Processes LT Week 6 Reading Week (exercises given out to do at home)

ST429 Statistical Methods for Risk Management MT Exercise/problem solving session will take place during Week 6

ST433 Computational Methods in Finance and Insurance LT Week 6 Reading Week

ST435 Advanced Probability Theory MT Week 6 Reading Week

ST436 Financial Statistics LT Teaching during Week 6. Revision week in Week 11.

ST439 Stochastics for Derivatives Modelling LT Teaching during Week 6. Revision week in Week 11.

ST440 Recent Developments in Finance and Insurance LT Week 6 Reading Week

ST442 Longitudinal Data Analysis LT Week 6 Reading Week

ST443 Machine Learning and Data Mining MT Week 6 Reading Week

ST444 Statistical Computing LT Week 6 Reading Week

ST445 Managing and Visualising Data MT Week 6 Reading Week

ST446 Distributed Computing for Big Data LT Week 6 Reading Week

ST447 Data Analysis and Statistical Methods MT Week 6 Reading Week

ST448 Insurance Risk LT A set of practice exam-type questions will be discussed in Week 6.

ST449 Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning LT Week 6 Reading Week

ST451 Bayesian Machine Learning LT Week 11 Revision Week

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Department of Statistics Welcome

We are delighted to welcome you to the Department Statistics.

The Department of Statistics at LSE has an international reputation and has been the academic home for a host of distinguished statisticians.

LSE is one of the finest institutions of its kind in the world and has a key position, geographically in terms of its location in central London and geo-politically in term of its national and international standing. Our success very much depends on your success and we look forward to getting to know you and supporting you in your endeavours. I would like to wish you all the best for your studies here and I hope that you will make the most of your time with us.

As you will learn, ours is a relatively small Department, and we try to maintain an informal, friendly, and supportive atmosphere for our students. If you do happen to encounter problems of any kind, be they academic, financial, or emotional, we very much hope that you’ll let us know at once. You can do this by informing your academic mentor (with whom you’ll have regular meetings throughout the year), by setting up an appointment with the Departmental Tutor, or by approaching any member of Departmental staff, including the MSc Programme Manager or Undergraduate Programme Manager.

I expect that you will find your studies challenging, but I hope that you also find them stimulating and rewarding. We think we are a friendly Department and we look forward to getting to know you better. This handbook should help you find your way around the School and the Department. Welcome!

Professor Pauline BarrieuHead, LSE Department of Statistics

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The Department of Statistics at the LSE is a growing, friendly Department with an excellent reputation in many areas of statistics. It enjoys a unique position, comprising a body of professional statisticians in an economics and social science institution. The advantages of this position can be seen in the major contributions the Department has made in theoretical statistics and its applications in actuarial science, social statistics and econometrics. The Department offers academic programmes at all levels: BSc, MSc and MPhil/PhD. It also shares teaching and research with other sections of the School that have strong interests in statistics, including the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Finance, the Department of Methodology, and the Department of Economics. The Department also has affiliations to the LSE Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS) and is also linked closely to The Royal Statistical Society and the Institute of Actuaries.

About Your Department

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The Department of Statistics runs two Undergraduate and three Masters Programmes; these are as follows:

Undergraduate:

BSc Actuarial Science Programme Director: Professor Angelos Dassios/ Dr George Tzougas

BSc Mathematics, Statistics and Business Programme Director: Dr Wicher Bergsma

There is also a third programme jointly run with the Mathematics Department which is BSc Financial Mathematics and Statistics.

Masters

MSc Data Science Programme Director: Professor Milan Vojnovic

MSc Quantitative Methods for Risk Management Programme Director: Dr Beatrice Acciaio (joint with Professor Hao Xing during MT 2018 only)

MSc Statistics and MSc Statistics (Research) Programme Director: Dr Kostas Kalogeropoulos

MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics) and MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics) (Research)Programme Director: Dr Clifford Lam

MSc Statistics (Social Statistics) and MSc Statistics (Social Statistics) (Research)Programme Director: Dr Jouni Kuha

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Professional Services Offices

All non-academic queries should be directed to the Departmental Offices. We are open for student enquiries from 10.00 – 13.00 and 14.00 – 16.00. You are welcome to visit in person, call or email. We are located on the 6th floor of Columbia House in COL 6.11.

Steve EllisUndergraduate Programmes Manager

Email: s.j.ellis@lse.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7955 7650

Sarah McManusMSc Programmes Manager

Email: s.mcmanus@lse.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7955 6879

Penny MontagueResearch and Finance Manager

Email: p.montague@lse.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7955 7511

Penny SmithEvents and Communications Officer

Email: p.a.smith@lse.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7955 5127

Kayleigh BrewerOffice Co-ordinator

Email: k.brewer@lse.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7107 5416

Imelda Noble-AndolfoDepartmental Manager

Email: i.noble-andolfo@lse.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7955 7731

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At the start of term all students will be assigned an Academic Mentor. Your Academic Mentor will:

• Provide you with academic guidance and feedback on your progress and performance.

• Discuss any academic problems you may be experiencing.

• Provide pastoral support on non-academic issues and refer you, as necessary, to the appropriate support agencies within the School.

• Meet with you regularly and maintain regular contact with you outside of meetings via email and other appropriate methods

Mentors will be able to discuss with and advise you regarding a range of academic and pastoral issues. These can include academic progress; course choices; internships; deferral; examinations; and personal circumstances. Academic Mentors are also one of the first faculty points of contact for you if you are facing difficulties with your studies.

For Undergraduate students, your Programme Manager will contact you to advise who your mentor is. For the MSc students your Programme Director will perform this role.

You should maintain regular contact with your Academic Mentor.

The Role of the Academic Mentor

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Timetables OfficeThe Timetables Office is responsible for scheduling and allocating rooms to all of the School’s taught courses.

The Timetables web page includes information for students and staff. https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/academic-registrars-division/timetables.

Personal TimetablesYou use LSE for You to select your courses and seminar groups. Personal Timetables can be viewed in LSE For You and the Student Hub.

Auditing CoursesYou may wish to audit some courses which are not part of your programme, and for which you will not gain credit.

Postgraduate students may audit the lectures of any courses in the School in which they are interested subject to the approval of the course leader responsible, but they may not attend the associated seminars if they are not registered on the course.

Undergraduate students can audit a course of the same level as they are, subject to the approval of the course leader responsible.

Assessment TypeFormative Assessment

All courses include a formative assessment component, which does not count towards your final degree results but which is compulsory.Formative assessment components are designed to help you with your studies and provide opportunities for individual feedback from teachers in order to give you an idea of how you are progressing.Course teachers will provide you with feedback, usually in the form of written comments and a mark. This feedback is invaluable in your preparation for the summative assessments as it should help you to improve and develop.

Summative Assessment

Each LSE course will be summatively assessed or examined. Some of the most common forms of assessment are exams, coursework, projects, group work and presentations.In planning for your summative assessments, please be aware that faculty are not available during the vacations.Queries and advice on coursework assignments should therefore be obtained during term-time office hours.

Course Administration

You will also be expected to participate in seminar presentations and discussions and, in some cases, these will form part of the final assessment.

Please see the online course outlines for specific information about what is required regarding formative and summative assessments. You will also be notified of this by the Course Leader

Coursework SubmissionYour coursework must be labelled with your candidate number (available from LSE for You) only. As LSE uses blind marking your name or LSE ID number must not appear anywhere on your work.In most cases you will be expected to submit a minimum of one hard copy to the Departments drop box and one electronic copy uploaded to Moodle. The electronic copy should be named with your candidate number and course code, i.e. 123654 ST303

Deadlines are strictly enforced. Both the hard copies and electronic copy must be submitted on time.

Requests for extensions are only granted in exceptional circumstances and must be approved by the Lecturer of the course. Such requests should be made in writing (email) and sent to both your lecturer and Programme Manager.

Late SubmissionAn assignment submitted after the deadline will have 5 marks out of 100 deducted for coursework submitted within 24-hours of the deadline and a further five marks will be deducted for each subsequent 24-hour period (working days only) until the coursework is submitted. For further details, please refer to the School’s Regulations: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar

Marking and Grading of Courses (MSc)

Mark Grade

0 – 19% Bad Fail20 – 49% Fail50 – 59% Pass60 – 69% Merit70% and over Distinction

Marking and Grading of Courses (BSc)

Mark Grade

0 – 39% Fail40 – 49% Third Class50 – 59% Lower Second Class60 – 69% Upper Second Class70% and over First Class

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Assessment OffencesPlagiarism

The work you submit for assessment must be your own. If you attempt to pass off the work of others as your own, whether deliberately or not, you are committing plagiarism. If you are found to have committed an assessment offence (such as plagiarism or exam misconduct) you could be expelled from the School.

Any quotation from the published or unpublished works of other persons, including other candidates, must be clearly identified as such. Quotes must be placed inside quotation marks and a full reference to sources must be provided in proper form. A series of short quotations from several different sources, if not clearly identified as such, constitutes plagiarism just as much as a single unacknowledged long quotation from a single source. All paraphrased material must also be clearly and properly acknowledged.

Any written work you produce (for classes, seminars, examination scripts, dissertations, essays, computer programmes) must be solely your own. You must not employ a “ghost writer” to write parts or all of the work, whether in draft or as a final version, on your behalf. For further information and the School’s Statement on Editorial Help, see link below.

Any breach of the Statement will be treated in the same way as plagiarism.

You should also be aware that a piece of work may only be submitted for assessment once (either to LSE or elsewhere). Submitting the same piece of work twice (regardless of which institution you submit it to) will be regarded as an offence of “self-plagiarism” and will also be treated in the same way as plagiarism.

Examiners are vigilant for cases of plagiarism and the School uses plagiarism detection software to identify plagiarised text. Work suspected of containing plagiarism will be investigated and may result in the application of severe penalties.

If you are unsure about the academic referencing conventions used by the School you should seek guidance from Moodle, your Academic mentor, LSE LIFE or the Library as soon as possible. Please see the assessment regulations for assessed coursework below.

The School Regulations on Plagiarism can be found at the following web links:

https://info.lse.ac.uk/Staff/Divisions/Academic-Registrars-Division/Teaching-Quality-Assurance-and-Review-Office/Assets/Documents/Calendar/RegulationsAssessmentOffences-Plagiarism.pdf.

https://info.lse.ac.uk/Staff/Divisions/Academic-Registrars-Division/Teaching-Quality-Assurance-and-Review-Office/Assets/Documents/Calendar/StatementOnEditorialHelp.pdf.

Turnitin

The Department of Statistics uses software called “Turnitin” as one method of detecting plagiarism. This software identifies materials that are directly copied from other sources and that should thereforebe properly referenced. All summative work is submitted to the service. Turnitin checks your work against:

• a database of previously submitted material (ie, other students’ essays and assignments)

• over 1.8 billion websites and essays from cheat sites.

Study GuidelinesMoodle is LSE’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a password protected web environment that contains a range of teaching resources, activities, assignments, information and discussions for your course. The content of Moodle is the responsibility of your teacher and so it will vary from course to course.

You will also find links to Moodle from a number of web pages, including the webpage for “Staff and Students”. If you have any technical problems with Moodle you should contact the helpdesk at it.helpdesk@lse.ac.uk.

MoodleMost of your courses for the programme will have a presence in Moodle. At a minimum this will be for the submission of your essays and some courses will also have course information, reading lists, access to electronic readings and discussion boards. Your course leader will let you know about the resources available on Moodle for your course.

Logging in

Go to the Moodle home page (moodle.lse.ac.uk/).

Enter your usual LSE network username and password (ie, what you use to log into LSE public computers. Your Moodle password is always the same as your LSE network password.)

Once logged in, you’ll see the “My Courses” block in the top left corner. This lists all the courses that you are enrolled on, if any. Click the name of a course to enter it.

Enrolling on Courses

Once logged in, scroll down the Moodle home page to find the “Course categories” section in the central column. The categories correspond to LSE Departments. Click on the category you want to list the available courses.

Only those courses available for enrolment will be listed. Click on the course name to enrol on it, and confirm by clicking “Yes”.You will now be in the new course, and it will be added to your “My Courses” block. This will enrol you on the Moodle course but you will still need to register for the course in LSE for You.

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MSc Study RoomThe 7th floor of Columbia House includes a study room for the use of MSc students from the Departments of Statistics. The room number is COL 7.02a. The room will remain unlocked during working hours but you will require your LSE ID cards to access it during evenings and weekends.

The study room has three fully networked PCs; as well as power and network points for the use of personal laptops and other electronic devices.

Please take care to look after anything valuable; as neither the Department nor the School can take responsibility for stolen or damaged items.

Recycling bins are provided, so please ensure that the space is kept clean and tidy for the benefit of all MSc students who will be using it. Misuse of the space of any kind is not acceptable. As the room is adjacent to academic offices, please also ensure that noise is kept to a minimum.

Undergraduate Common RoomOn the 6th floor of Colombia House there is an undergraduate common room. The space is designed for use for all Statistics undergraduate students. This is a multipurpose space which the Department encourages you to use. The room is equipped with comfy seats, tables, writing boards and there is a drinks machine. Whilst the room is not a dedicated study area you are welcome to study there, but you can also use it to meet friends, have lunch, wait for your next class and in general enjoy some down time.

The LSE Library Your LSE student card is also your Library card. No additional registration with the Library is required.

You are welcome to ask Library staff at the beginning of term for general information, your Library guide and other freebies.

Your dedicated support librarian for the Department of Statistics is Clive Wilson at clive.wilson@lse.ac.uk.

You can also contact the Library at: library.enquiries@lse.ac.uk.

General School and Academic RegulationsThe School has regulations, policies and procedures covering many aspects of student life and you should familiarise yourself with them.

The regulations explain the organisation and conduct of your academic study. This includes information about the structure of programmes, assessment, graduation and what to do if illness affects your studies.

You can find some of the School’s Programme Regulations at the links below:

• Regulations for First degrees https://info.lse.ac.uk/Staff/Divisions/Academic-Registrars-Division/Teaching-Quality-Assurance-and-Review-Office/Assets/Documents/Calendar/RegulationsForFirstDegrees.pdf

• Regulations for the consideration of appeals against decisions of boards of examiners for taught courses https://info.lse.ac.uk/Staff/Divisions/Academic-Registrars-Division/Teaching-Quality-Assurance-and-Review-Office/Assets/Documents/Calendar/AppealsRegulations.pdf

• Regulations for Taught Masters degrees (entering in or after 2009/10) https://info.lse.ac.uk/Staff/Divisions/Academic-Registrars-Division/Teaching-Quality-Assurance-and-Review-Office/Assets/Documents/Calendar/RegulationsForTaughtMasters-InOrAfter2009-10.pdf

• Regulations on assessment offences: other than plagiarism (i.e. Exam Misconduct). https://info.lse.ac.uk/Staff/Divisions/Academic-Registrars-Division/Teaching-Quality-Assurance-and-Review-Office/Assets/Documents/Calendar/RegulationsAssessmentOffences-OtherThanPlagiarism.pdf

What To Do If You Are Ill During Your StudiesInformation about the School’s procedure can be found online at:https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/services/assessment-and-results/exceptional-circumstances/exceptional-circumstances

Submitting your Exceptional Circumstances and evidence to the Student Services Centre by the deadline is the only way to make Exam Boards aware of your circumstances when considering the treatment of failed courses or your overall classification. It is essential that you submit information about your circumstances within this deadline and before your results are known even if you think you may have done well. Your circumstances cannot be considered once the Exam Boards have met and your results have been formally released.

Fit to Sit PolicyBy entering the exam room, the School considers that you are declaring yourself fit to sit your exam. The same policy applies to all summative assessments; by submitting the assessment you are declaring that you are fit enough to do so. If you have experienced disruption to your studies, e.g. illness/injury, personal difficulties, prior to the exam from personal difficulties you must think carefully about whether you should attempt the assessment or whether you should discuss deferring the exam with your academic Department.

Codes of Good PracticeThe Codes of Practice for Undergraduates and Taught Masters Programmes explain the basic obligations and responsibilities of staff and students. They set out what you can expect from your Department – and what your Department is expected to provide – in relation to the teaching and learning experience. The codes cover areas like the roles and responsibilities of Academic Mentors and Departmental Tutors; the structure of teaching at the School; and examinations and assessment. They also set out your responsibilities, ie, what the School expects of you.

The code for undergraduate students:https://info.lse.ac.uk/Staff/Divisions/Academic-Registrars-Division/Teaching-Quality-Assurance-and-Review-Office/Assets/Documents/Calendar/CodeOfGoodPracticeUndergraduate.pdf.

The code for postgraduate students:https://info.lse.ac.uk/Staff/Divisions/Academic-Registrars-Division/Teaching-Quality-Assurance-and-Review-Office/Assets/Documents/Calendar/CodeOfGoodPracticeTaughtMasters.pdf.

All students should read The Ethics Code and guidance. The Ethics Code and guidance sets out the core principles by which the whole School community (including all staff, students and governors) are expected to act:http://www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/ethics/14-0882-Ethics-Code-Branding-booklet-links-final.pdf.

The Student Charter sets out the vision and ethos of the School:https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/Assets/Documents/LSE-LSESU-Student-Charter-May-2017-edition-final-text-electronically-signed.pdf.

If you conduct research you should refer to the School’s Research Ethics Policy and procedures:https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/services/Policies-and-procedures/Assets/Documents/resEthPolPro.pdf.

And also the code of Research conduct:https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/services/Policies-and-procedures/Assets/Documents/codResCon.pdf.

If you have any questions regarding research ethics or research conduct please contact research.ethics@lse.ac.uk.

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Interruption/Deferral/ Withdrawal/ Mode of StudyInterruption: With approval from your Department you can take a year-long break in your studies, which we call an interruption. You are usually required to return at the start of the nearestapplicable term – be that Michaelmas or Lent Term. Summer Term interruptions are not possible. For more information, please see https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/services/interruption.

Deferral: If you complete the teaching for a course but have difficulties in the lead up to or during the assessment period, then in exceptional circumstances you can seek to defer assessment(s) to the following academic year. For more information, please see https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/services/assessment-and-results/exceptional-circumstances/deferral.

Withdrawal: Withdrawing means that you are leaving the programme permanently. Before withdrawing you may want to consider interruption so that you have some time to consider your options. For more information, please see lse.ac.uk/ withdrawals

Programme Transfers: You can request to transfer from your current programme to another programme at the same level according to the School’s regulations.

There are usually restrictions on transferring programmes, and sometimes transfers are not possible. In particular, transfers between any of our MSc programmes in the Department are not permitted, unless there are very exceptional circumstances.All transfer requests are considered by and require approval from the relevant academic Departments and the School before being authorised. For more information, please see https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/services/programme-transfer.

Classification SchemesUndergraduate and graduate degrees are awarded according to the classification scheme applicable to the year in which you started your programme of study.

These schemes are applied by the Boards of Examiners at their meetings in July and November each year.

The following web links gives details of the School’s schemes of award:

Classification Scheme for BA/BSC Degreeshttps://info.lse.ac.uk/Staff/Divisions/Academic-Registrars-Division/Teaching-Quality-Assurance-and-Review-Office/Assets/Documents/Calendar/SchemeBA-BSC-InOrAfter2007-08-OtherThanFourYear.pdf.

Scheme for Taught Mastershttps://info.lse.ac.uk/Staff/Divisions/Academic-Registrars-Division/Teaching-Quality-Assurance-and-Review-Office/Assets/Documents/Calendar/SchemeTaughtMasters.pdf.

In addition to the standard classification rules each postgraduate programme has its own local rules which specify any programme-level classification conditions. Please refer to your programme’s local rules by browsing for your programme at the following location:http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/LocalRules/ExamSubboard.htm.

Student Support Services

New Arrivals Information and OrientationWelcome and Registration

Welcome 2018 offers a huge range of talks, tours and other activities to help you settle into life at LSE. It is designed to introduce you to LSE and help you meet other students. For more information visit https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/your-first-weeks/lse-welcome.

At the start of the academic year all new and continuing students need to formally register on their programme of study. New students need to do this in person whilst most continuing students will be able to re-register online.

To ensure that you are able to register as quickly as possible, each programme is allocated a time slot (for large programmes these slots are further split by surname). Please make sure that you attend the correct slot or you may be turned away. At registration, you will be asked to provide proof of your eligibility to study in the UK and will be issued with your LSE ID Card.

For more information, including schedules, details of what documents you need to provide and how to re-register visit https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/your-first-weeks/registration.

Certificate of RegistrationA Certificate of Registration provides proof to organisations, such as council tax offices, embassies and banks, that you are registered as a current student at LSE. For details about what is contained in a Certificate of Registration visit https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/services/student-status-documentation/certificates-letters.

You can obtain a Certificate of Registration from the Student Services Centre during their opening hours (normally 11:00 to 4:00pm, Monday to Friday). If you are planning to use the document to open a bank account you must specify which bank it needs to be addressed to.

If you require a certificate with information beyond what is on the standard Certificate of Registration, please also see the above link.

LSE CareersLSE Careers offers a wide range of seminars, employer presentations, fairs and face-to-face career discussions to help you at every stage of your career planning process – from deciding what you want to do to preparing for interviews and settling into a job.

LSE Careers also works with your Department to deliver events and services tailored to you.

LSE attracts top recruiters in many sectors who use the School’s vacancy board to advertise hundreds of internships, voluntary, part-time and graduate positions. You can access the vacancy board and book career discussions and events through LSE CareerHub at careers.lse.ac.uk.

The LSE Careers website (lse.ac.uk/ careers) and blog are also full of tips, advice and information about every stage of the careers process from CV writing to interviews, and information about a wide range of employment sectors.

LSE Volunteer CentreThe LSE Volunteer Centre is based within LSE Careers and is here to help you develop new skills and new friendships while making an impact through volunteering. We advertise volunteering opportunities at different charities across London and internationally, with positions ranging from one-off opportunities to part-time internships with charities. The annual Volunteering Fair takes place at the beginning of Michaelmas Term and is a great opportunity to meet a wide range of charities and get a feel for the work they do. You can find out more, as well as tips and advice about volunteering, on the LSE Volunteer Centre website lse.ac.uk/ volunteercentre. or @LSEVolunteering.

FeesThe School offers two options for payment of fees. You can either pay them in full prior to Registration or by Payment Plan where you pay one third of your fees on the 28th October 2018, 28th January2019 and 28 April 2019. If you do not know the cost of your fees, please see the Table of Fees at lse.ac.uk/tableoffees.

Full fee information, including how to pay, can be found here: https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/Finance-Division/Fees-Income-and-Credit-Control/Tuition-Fees.

International Student Immigration Visa Advice Team (ISVAT)ISVAT provides detailed immigration advice for international students on their website which is updated whenever immigration rules change. They can advise you by email (if you complete a web query form on the ISVAT website) or at the drop-in service in the Student Services Centre reception. ISVAT run workshops to advice students applying to extend their stay in the UK; and in complex cases, they will make individual appointments. For more information including drop in times and dates of workshops go to: lse.ac.uk/isvat. You can also follow them at @LSE_ISVAT.

ISVAT also manages staff and student exchanges through the Erasmus + programme at LSE. For more information on our exchanges, go to lse.ac.uk/Erasmus.

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Services for Disabled Students (including students who have specific learning difficulties)

Disability equality is an important facet of the equality and diversity agenda. LSE acknowledges that disabled students have often overcome additional barriers in order to gain a university place, and is committed to eliminating further unnecessary obstacles and to facilitating equal access to study and university life.

The Disability and Well-being Service (DWS) runs three specialist services, all of which are free and confidential:

• The Disability Service, for students with physical/sensory impairments and those with long-term or chronic medical conditions.

• The Neurodiversity Service, for students with dyslexia, dyspraxia, asperger syndrome and other neurodiverse conditions.

• The Mental Health and Well-being Service, for students with mental health concerns.

The DWS can also set up Inclusion Plans, outlining reasonable adjustments such is extended library loans, negotiated deadlines and rest breaks in exams.

It runs several interest and support groups, for example the Neurodiversity Interest Group and the Circles Network.For further information please visit lse.ac.uk/disability or email disability-dyslexia@lse.ac.uk.

The Language CentreEnglish Language Support

If English is not your first language the Language Centre is on hand to give you advice and support throughout your time at LSE. The support is free and starts as soon as your main programme starts.There are specific classes for academic units and information sessions are held during the first days of term to advise you on the most appropriate classes to take. Classes begin in week 2 of the Michaelmas Term. Please see lse.ac.uk/languages for information on the English for academic Purposes (EaP) In-sessional Support Programme.

Language, Linguistics and Literature – Degree Options and Certificate Courses

As well as a range of degree options available on all undergraduate programmes, the Language Centre also offers an extra-curricular programme in a range of modern foreign languages which is open to you for a fee. To help you choose the most appropriate course a series of information sessions and individual appointments is held during the first weeks of term. Please see lse.ac.uk/languages for information on the Modern Foreign Language (MFL) certificate course.

LSE Students’ Unionhttps://www.lsesu.com/

We believe that LSE has one of the most active student communities at any university, and is being led by students. The Student’s Union (SU) is independent from the School.

The SU will provide advice if you get into trouble, tell you how you can meet students with similar interests and views, and provide opportunities to have the sort of student experience you want.Here are some of the ways in which we do it:

• Student activities – the Union funds and supports over 200 societies, sports clubs, Media Group societies and Raising and Giving charitable fundraising.

• Campaigns and democracy – getting students together to take action on and influence the issues they care about within the School and wider society.

• Representation – led by a Student Executive, working with representatives across the School, you influence and shape the decisions and direction of the School.

• Welfare and student support – our independent, legally-trained advice workers offer free, confidential advice if you need help.

• The Union runs a bar, some shops and the only gym on campus all designed for LSE students.

You will be part of one of the most important chapters in the Union’s history, where we go now and what happens next for your union is up to you.

The Students Union is led by students for students and exists to make your time at the school the best it can be.

The Faith CentreThe Faith Centre is available to provide pastoral support to anyone seeking non- judgemental conversation or advice and to support religious life and cohesion within the wider School community.For further information about events and services see the Faith Centre website: lse.ac.uk/faithcentre.

LSE Student Counselling ServiceThis free and confidential service aims to enable you to cope with any personal or study difficulties that may be affecting you while at LSE. As well as one-to-one appointments, there are group sessions and workshops available throughout the year to cover issues such as exam anxiety and stress management. For full details, please see lse.ac.uk/counselling.

All counselling sessions need to be booked in advance, but there are also a number of drop in sessions available each day at 3pm (please see the website). You can make appointments by email (student.counselling@lse.ac.uk), phone 020 7852 3627) or by coming in to the Teaching and Learning Centre Reception (KSW 5.07, on the 5th floor of 20 Kingsway).

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Peer Support for Undergraduate StudentsThe aim of the Peer Support programme at LSE is to provide student-led, informal and confidential assistance to all LSE undergraduate students who would like some emotional support, help and reassurance. Around 20 students are trained each year to become Peer Supporters. They can be found in LSE Halls of Residence and on campus.

Peer Supporters are not counsellors, nor can they provide you with solutions to your problems. However Peer Supporters have been specifically selected and trained in listening, questioning and responding skills to ensure they are able to help other students to reach their own solutions. It can be helpful to talk to someone who is non-judgemental impartial and outside of your situation.

For further information, or to contact a Peer Supporter, see: lse.ac.uk/peersupport.

LSE Day NurseryThe LSE Day Nursery is registered under the Early Years sector; and registered with Ofsted. This allows the Nursery to provide care and learning for 63 children in total, aged between three months and five years.

We are located in the basement of an LSE Hall of Residence on Wild Street. This service is primarily for students and staff of LSE, offering full-time and part-time spaces.

The Nursery bases its curriculum on the Revised Early Years Foundation Stage Framework (EYFS). and was rated Good on the last Ofsted Inspection in June 2016.

The Nursery has four main rooms. There are two baby rooms, which can take up to 23 babies aged three months to two years. It can accommodate up to 26 toddlers aged between two to three years, and 16 pre-school children aged between three to five years.

It is open from 8.45am – 6.15pm for 50 weeks of the year, except for Bank Holidays and a week at both Christmas and Easter. There are always places available and the Nursery welcomes enquiries from interested parents, both students and staff.

The Nursery welcomes viewings any week day at 10.30am or 3pm by appointment, please email nursery@lse.ac.uk or call 0207 107 5966.

Student Services Centre (SSC)The student services centre is located on the ground floor of the old building. It provides advice and information on the following services

• Certificates of registration (for bank accounts, embassies, council tax etc.)

• Course choice and class changes

• Examinations and results advice

• Collection of cheques

• Graduation ceremonies

• Information for new arrivals

• Information about programme registration (registration itself normally takes place in Clement House

• Transcripts and degree certificates

• Student cards

The SSC is normally open between 11am and 4pm, Monday to Friday but for the most up to date opening hours visit lse. ac.uk/ssc. Here you can also find the contact details for the different teams in the SSC.

The SSC also hosts a range of specialist drop-in sessions:

• Financial Support Office

• Fees Office

• Graduate Admissions

• International Student Visa Advice Team

• These sessions run for an hour at various times during the week so be sure to check when the next session is running. In most cases you will need to sign up to attend a session.

Follow the SSC at @LSE_SSC

LSE LIFELSE LIFE is the School’s centre for academic, professional and personal development. They can help you find your own ‘best’ ways to study, think about where your studies might lead you, and make the most of your time at LSE.

LSE LIFE offers:

• guidance and hands-on practice of the key skills you’ll need to do well at LSE: effective reading, academic writing and critical thinking

• workshops related to how to adapt to new or difficult situations, including development of skills for leadership, study/work/life balance, and preparing for the working world

• a place to meet and work together with your peers on interdisciplinary group projects and research

• support in making the transition to (or back to) university life;

• advice and practice on working in study groups and on cross-cultural communication and teamwork

• ideas and inspiration about academic pursuits and pathways into professional life

• and much more...

LSE LIFE is located on the ground floor of the Library and is your first port of call to discover what is available for you. The LSE LIFE team, together with advisers and specialists from LSE Careers, LSE Library, the Language Centre and other parts of the School, will be on hand to answer your questions. Sign up for a workshop, come by for help with your homework, or just drop in. For more information you can also visit lse.ac.uk/lselife.

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Financial Support Office (FSO)• FSO is responsible for the administration and awarding of

scholarships, bursaries, studentships and School prizes. It holds drop in sessions in the Student Services Centre. Advice can also be given by telephone on 020 7955 6609 (9.30am – 5.30pm).

• FSO provide information about funds such as the Student Support Fund, LSE Access Fund and the Postgraduate Travel Fund.

• Full details and application forms are available from lse.ac.uk/financialsupport

LSE for YouLSE for You is a personalised web portal which gives you access to a range of services. For example, you can:

• view or change your personal details

• reset your Library and network passwords

• monitor and pay your tuition fees online

• check your exam results

You can also access online tutorials on how to navigate and personalise LSE for You via its login page. Use your LSE network username and password to login via lse.ac.uk/lseforyou.

EmailThe School will use your LSE email address to communicate with you so you should check it regularly (once a day during term time). Microsoft Outlook is available on all student PCs on the LSE network. You can also access e-mail off-campus using webmail and remote desktop or on the move, using email clients for laptops and mobile phones. For instructions on how to access your email off campus visit lse.ac.uk/ intranet/LSEServices/IMT/remote.

IT SupportStudent IT Help Desk – First Floor, Library

Contact the IT Help desk (it.helpdesk@lse.ac.uk, ext 5000) for support for School- owned hardware and software on the LSE network, network and email account issues, and general IT queries.

Laptop Surgery – First Floor, Library

Visit the Laptop Surgery for free advice and hands-on help with problems connecting to LSE resources from personally-owned laptops and mobile devices.

IT Support for disabled students

The School is committed to providing facilities and support for students with disabilities. Additional PCs and printing facilities for students with disabilities are provided in the public computer areas in the Library. Other facilities are available in three dedicated PC rooms in the Library (LRB.R25 and LRB.R26). The Library also provides one-to-one support for students with disabilities who wish to become

familiar with assistive technologies and software. This can be arranged by contacting Sebastiaan Eldritch-Böersen via imt.disabilities.support@lse.ac.uk to arrange an appointment.

Student Teaching SurveysThe Teaching Quality Assurance and Review Office (TQARO) conducts two School-wide surveys each year to assess students’ opinions of teaching, one in each of the Michaelmas and Lent Terms. Teaching scores are made available to individual teachers, Heads of Departments, the Director of the Teaching and Learning Centre and the Pro-director (Education). In addition to producing reports for individual teachers, TQARO produces aggregated quantitative data for Departments and the School, which provide important performance indicators. These can be found on the TQARO website: lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/TQARO/TeachingSurveys/Results/Home.aspx.

Results of the “course” section of the surveys are made available to students through the online course guides.

Equality and Diversity at LSETo uphold the School’s commitment to equality of respect and opportunity, as set out in the Ethics Code, we will treat all people with dignity and respect, and ensure that no-one will be treated less favourably because of their role at the School, age, disability, gender (including gender identity), race, religion or belief sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and social and economic background.

In practice, this means we expect you to:

• Treat all members of the School community fairly and with respect;

• Act courageously and openly, with respect for the knowledge and experience of others;

• Play your part in creating an environment that enables all members of the School community to achieve their full potential in an environment characterised by equality of respect and opportunity; and

• Actively oppose all forms of discrimination and harassment, including challenging and/or reporting unacceptable behaviour.

• The School is committed to embedding and mainstreaming equity, diversity and inclusion. In 2017/2018, we initiated a programme of training on consent and positive bystander interventions, in partnership with the LSE Students’ Union. For further advice or information, please visit the School’s Equality and Diversity website (lse.ac.uk/equityDiversityInclusion), see the blog, and follow us on Twitter @EDI_LSE.

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Access Guides to LSE BuildingsDisabledGo have produced detailed access guides to the LSE campus and residences, and route maps between key locations. These are available at lse.ac.uk/DisabledGo.

GraduationResults and Transcripts of Results

The School releases confirmed marks once the relevant School Board of Examiners has ratified them. For further information, please see lse.ac.uk/results.

To ensure that your results are released as scheduled, please check your balance on LSE for You to see if you have any outstanding fees. You should contact the Fees Office on fees@lse.ac.uk if you have any queries, as the School will not release your results if you have an outstanding debt.

Transcripts for finalists are issued digitally as soon as possible after final results are officially published. Continuing students will be able to request an “intermediate transcript” of results as soon as they are officially published.

For more information, please see lse.ac.uk/transcripts.

Graduation Ceremonies

Graduation ceremonies take place in in July for undergraduate students, or students who have followed nine or ten month taught postgraduate degree programmes and in December forpostgraduate students who have followed twelve month taught programmes.

For more information, including the dates of future ceremonies and details of the School’s overseas ceremonies, please see lse.ac.uk/ceremonies.

Degree Certificates

Your degree certificate will give your full name, level of award, programme of study, and class of degree or other award obtained.It will be available for collection on your graduation day. If you don’t collect it at the ceremony, it will be posted to your home addresses within eight weeks. It is therefore essential that you keep your details up-to-date on LSE for You.

For more information, please see lse.ac.uk/degreeCertificates.

Alumni AssociationLSE Alumni Community

The international LSE alumni community comprises more than 142,000 people in over 200 countries. As a current student, there are many opportunities for you to get involved with the alumni network:

• Register for LSE Alumni Online – The alumni website and networking community features news from campus, our world leading academics and alumni all over the world, and provides access to the alumni programme offered by the School. To use this service, please register for a student Alumni Online account with your Student ID number. Also, don’t forget to read your programme bulletins to keep up to date with upcoming student and alumni events organised by your programme team and the careers service.

• Alumni Professional Mentoring Network – This career networking resource allows LSE alumni to share their valuable professional experience and expertise with current students.

• Alumni groups – LSE’s network of regional and special interest alumni groups organise regular professional and social events that students can attend. There are more than 80 regional groups and 11 special interest groups.

• Social Media – Follow the team on Facebook and Twitter to keep up to date with alumni events and activities. Students are welcome to join the official LSE Alumni LinkedIn group. There are also a number of LSE alumni groups on LinkedIn, many of which accept current students as members.

For more information about the benefits and services available, please visit lse.ac.uk/alumni.

LSE’s Alumni Association is your lifelong network of over 100,000 alumni. You automatically become a member upon graduation.

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Staff Student Liaison Committee (SSLC)At the start of the year you will be asked if you would like to represent your programme on the Staff Student Liaison Committee. These are important Committees which provide a forum for feedback from students on their programme, it is also an opportunity for the discussion of issues which affect the student community as a whole.

The role of an SSLC representative is therefore central to ensuring that courses and programmes in the School work efficiently. Those elected or chosen as a representative will be given full training by the student union.

The first meeting will be held during MT (approximately the beginning of November) and thereafter the Committee meets again in the Lent Term. Representatives will need to consult with their colleagues in order to collect views in advance of meetings, and they can also suggest agenda items.

One SSLC representative at undergraduate and postgraduate level will also be nominated to represent the Department of Statistics at the Undergraduate Consultative Forum and Taught Postgraduate Forum. More information is available via http://www.lse.ac.uk/studentRepresentation/home.aspx.

How to become an SSLC representative

Students will be emailed in the first few weeks of term to see who would like to be the student representative. If there are quite a few volunteers, then a selection process will be carried out.

In the case of undergraduate students, those who were representatives in their 1st year will carry on to be the representatives in their 2nd year and so on. Names and contact details of student representatives and agenda and minutes of SSLC meetings will be published on Moodle.

CommunicationsPlease bear in mind that email is used in the Department and throughout the school as the standard form of communication.It is therefore essential, once you have set up your LSE email address, that you check it regularly (at least once a day during term time). Please note that the Department will not send emails to LSE students at non-LSE email addresses.

Email

You can also access e-mail off-campus using webmail and remote desktop or on the move, using email clients for laptops and mobile phones. For instructions on how to access your e-mail off campus, visit http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/IMT/remote.

Social Media

Stay in touch via social media, the Department has a Twitter account and also has dedicated Undergraduate and MSc Student Facebook groups. Our Facebook groups can be accessed here:

Undergraduate:https://www.facebook.com/groups/177124742629172/.

Postgraduate (note this is the same Facebook group as for MSc offer-holders):https://www.facebook.com/groups/349325985548402/.

Please note if your Facebook account is not registered in your official name, it will be difficult for the Facebook administrator to know who you are and grant you access. In such instances please contact your Programme Manager to advise them of the name difference so they can look out for your request.

You can follow us on Twitter via @statsdeptlse.

Anonymous Online Feedback Form

If you have something you wish to feedback to the Department anonymously this can be done via https://podio.com/webforms/21018827/1450475. This feedback is managed by the Student Union and is 100% anonymous.

You may be asked for your contact details but the student union will not pass this on to the Department.

Student NewslettersDuring term time both the Undergraduate and MSc Programmes Manager will send regular email newsletters. These contain crucial information about your studies, including coursework submission and other important deadlines. As well as this they will contain updates on events happening in the Department and or school, job vacancies and learning and development opportunities.

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Student Prizes

Undergraduate PrizesCyril Offord Prize

Awarded for outstanding performance in BSc Mathematics and Economics or BSc Business Mathematics and Statistics. The prize is awarded by the Department of mathematics and statistics and the winners decided jointly between the two Departments.Prize: £200

Farr Prize

Awarded for the best performance in final examinations for a BSc student in the Departments of Mathematics or Statistics. The winner is decided jointly between the 2 Departments.Prize: There is a prize fund of £500, the prize maybe split between 2 winners

IMA Prizes

Two prizes are awarded for outstanding performance in the final year of an institute of mathematics and its applications (IMA) approved course. All degrees within the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics are IMA approved so this is a joint decision.Prize: A year’s free membership of the IMA

Bowley Prize

Awarded to the best 3rd year undergraduate project in Applied Statistics (ST312).Prize: £350

Winton Capital Prizes

The prizes will be awarded to two undergraduate statistics students who have taken the Stochastic and Actuarial Methods in Finance course (ST330) and achieved the highest weighted average marks. In the weighting, the ST330 counts for 50% and each of the eight remaining units count for 6.25%.Prize: 2 prizes of £500

Worshipful Company of Actuaries

This prize is for an Act Sci student entering either their 2nd or 3rd year of study. This is not a school prize and the cheques are raised by the WCA themselves and a presentation is arranged (by the UG Administrator) where the students are awarded the cheques and members of the WCA attend too.Prize: Usually a £300 cheque given to one student or two cheques for £150 are given out so the prize can be split by the Worshipful Company of Actuaries

MSc Student PrizesThe Winton Prize for academic excellence in MSc Statistics/MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics) and MSc Statistics (Social Statistics)

This prize will be awarded to the student with the highest overall mark in their assessments. One prize of £500 will be awarded in the 2018/19 academic session.

The Winton Prize for best dissertation in MSc Statistics/MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics)/MSc Statistics (Social Statistics)

This prize will be awarded to the MSc Statistics/MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics)/MSc Statistics (Social Statistics) (Research) student with the highest mark in their dissertation. One prize of £500 will be awarded in the 2018/19 academic session.

The Winton Prize for academic excellence in MSc Data Science

This prize will be awarded to the MSc in Data Science student with the highest overall marks in their assessments. One prize of £500 will be awarded in the 2018/19 academic session.

The Winton Prize for best dissertation in MSc Data Science

This prize will be awarded to the MSc Data Science students with the highest overall mark in their Capstone Project/Dissertation. One prize of £500 will be awarded in the 2018/19 academic session.

The Royal Statistical Society Prize

The Royal Statistical Society also provides an annual prize to the MSc Statistics or MSc Financial Statistics student which is awarded to the student with the second highest overall results. The prize is a years’ free graduate membership of the RSS. Note that in order to qualify for this prize, the student in question will need to be eligible for Graduate Statistician Status. If this is not the case, the prize will be awarded to the eligible student with the next highest mark.

The Rajendra Bhansali Prize

This Prize is made possible by a generous donation from Rajendra Bhansali, graduate (BSc(Econ), 1967 and PhD, 1971) and former member of staff (1967-68) of the LSE and now Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Liverpool. One prize of £200 is awarded to the MSc Quantitative Methods for Risk Management student with the highest overall mark in their assessments.

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Course Choices

For the 2018/19 academic session, the online course selection facility will be accessible from:

New undergraduates (including General Course students): you will be able to select courses from 10am on Monday 3 September 2018 until 5pm on Monday 15 October 2018.

Postgraduates: the course choice system will open for browsing from 10am on Monday 24 September and you will be able to select courses from 10am on Friday 28 September 2018 until 5pm on Monday 15 October 2018.

If you have not yet completed all of your admissions paperwork (such as your Financial Undertaking Form or Confirmation of Conditions) then the option to select your courses will not be available to you on LFY. Please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office to finalise your admission to the School, and allow one working day for the 'Course Selection' option to appear in LFY. For instructions on selecting courses, please see https://lfy.lse.ac.uk/lfy/ap/lfy2/html/selectStudentTutorial.html.

If you have made your course choices in LFY by the specified date, but cannot view a personal timetable this may be because you have a timetable clash. If this is the case you should see a message telling you the codes of the courses that are clashing. For further information on timetable clashes please see the timetableshttp://www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/diaryAndEvents/timetables/timetableClash.aspx.

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Staff Contacts

Name and Course Contact Details Research Interests

Dr Beatrice AcciaioProgramme Director for MSc Quantitative Methods for Risk ManagementTeaches ST302, ST435, ST440

Room: COL 6.02Email: b.acciaio@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 3486 2957

Stochastic calculus and its applications in finance; risk measures and optimal risk sharing; robust finance and information asymmetry

Dr James AbdeyTeaches ST102, ST107, ST307 & ST327

Room: COL 5.10Email: J.S.Abdey@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 6030

Forensic statistics; compound error methods; decision-theoretic foundations; economic and public sector applications; significance measures

Dr Matteo BarigozziTeaches ST304 & ST202

Room COL.7.11Email: M.Barigozzi@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 6063

Time series analysis; dynamic factor models (stationary and non-stationary); volatility modelling; graphical models and social networks.

Prof Pauline BarrieuHead of DepartmentTeaches ST330

Room: COL.6.03Email: P.M.Barrieu@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 6016

Model uncertainty; insurance-linked securitization; contract designing; environmental economics; and financial mathematics.

Dr Erik BaurdouxDeputy Head of Department for TeachingTeaches ST330 and ST426

Room: COL.6.04Email: E.J.Baurdoux@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 6717

Optimal stopping; stochastic games; Lévy processes; financial and insurance mathematics

Dr Wicher BergsmaTeaches ST425

Room: COL.6.06Email: W.P.Bergsma@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 6725

Categorical data analysis; statistical learning; testing independence; multivariate analysis; graphical modelling

Dr Luciano CampiTeaches ST306 and ST439

Room: COL.5.04Email: l.campi@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 6013

Stochastic calculus and its applications to finance; Information asymmetry and insider trading; credit risk; financial markets and transaction costs; energy markets

Prof Umut CetinTeaches ST302, ST306 and ST433

Room: COL.6.08Email: U.Cetin@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 7644

Stochastic calculus; theory of martingales and Markov processes; liquidity risk and credit risk modelling; asymmetric information in financial markets; carbon finance.

Dr Yining ChenTeaches ST444, ST447 and ST498

Room: COL.5.08Email: y.chen101@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 6865

Shape-constrained estimation; nonparametric classification and regression; semiparametric modelling; time series analysis.

Dr Nicholas CronTeaches ST108, ST205

Room: COL5.13Email: N.Cron@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 6009

Prof Angelos DassiosTeaches ST226 and ST303

Room: COL.6.14Email: A.Dassios@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 7749

Stochastic processes; theory & applications of piecewise deterministic Markov processes; risk theory; insurance and financial applications of stochastic processes.

Prof Piotr FryzlewiczTeaches ST436

Room: COL.5.12Email: P.Fryzlewicz@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 7953

Multiscale modelling and estimation; time series (especially nonstationary time series); change-point detection; high-dimensional statistical inference and dimension reduction; randomised algorithms; statistical learning; data visualisation; statistics in finance; statistics in the socila sciences; statistics in neuroscience.

Dr Sara GenelettiTeaches ST201 and ST211

Room: COL.5.07Email: S.Geneletti@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 7646

Causal inference, graphical models, Bayesian inference, evidence synthesis

Dr Kostas KalogeropoulosProgramme Director, MSc Statistics and MSc Statistics (Research)Teaches ST202, ST451 and ST498

Room: COL 6.10Email: K.Kalogeropoulos@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 6017

Bayesian inference, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, sequential Monte Carlo, inference on models with stochastic differential equations, infectious disease modelling with evidence synthesis

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Name and Course Contact Details Research Interests

Prof Kostas KardarasTeaches ST213 and ST409

Room: COL.6.07Email: K.Kardaras@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 7169

Stochastic analysis, martingales and the general theory of stochastic processes, foundations of mathematical finance and economics, stochastic control and optimisations and Monte Carlo methods

Dr Jouni KuhaProgramme Director, MSc Statistics (Social Statistics) and MSc Statistics (Social Statistics) (Research)Teaches ST405/MY455 and ST411

Room: COL 8.04Email: J.Kuha@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 6835

Model selection; models with measurement error and missing data; latent variable models; analysis of cross-national survey data; social statistics.

Dr Clifford Wai-Fung LamProgramme Director, MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics) and MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics) (Research)Teaches ST308 and ST422

Room: COL.6.09Email: C.Lam2@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 7636

Semiparametric modelling; variables and feature selections; regularization methods; high-dimensional data analysis; time series and factor modelling; spatial econometrics modelling

Dr Milt MavrakakisTeaches ST416

Room: COL5.13Email: m.c.mavrakakis@lse.ac.uk

Prof Irini MoustakiOn Sabbatical Leave 2018/19Room: COL.6.05

Email: I.Moustaki@lse.ac.uk Latent variable models; structural equation models; categorical data; missing values; outliers; composite likelihood estimation methods; applications to social sciences and health

Dr Xinghao QiaoTeaches ST300 and ST443

Room: COL.5.15Email: x.qiao@lse.ac.uk

Functional and longitudinal data analysis; high dimensional statistics; statistical machine learning; time series analysis

Dr Evangelia MitrodomaAcademic Mentor for all First Year Undergraduates

Room: COL 5.11Email: E.Mitrodoma@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 6009

Financial modelling and forecasting and her research uses among others Bayesian non- and semi-parametric framework, via Markov chain Monte Carlo, for the construction of quantile time series models for financial data

Prof Leonard SmithOn sabbatical leave 2018/19

Room: TW1 11.1AEmail: L.Smith@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 7626

Time series; non-linear time series and chaos

Prof Fiona SteeleDeputy Head of Department for Education StrategyTeaches ST442

Room: COL.7.12Email: F.A.Steele@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 6236

Statistical methods for social research; multilevel modelling; longitudinal data analysis; event history (survival) analysis; structural equation modelling; applications in demography, psychology, education and epidemiology.

Dr George TzougasTeaches ST227, ST301, ST306

Room: COL 5.11Email: g.tzougas@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 7646

Mixture models, EM algorithm, distribution theory, risk theory and actuarial modelling, design of optimal bonus-malus systems, reinsurance, claims reserving and ruin theory.

Professor Milan VojnovicProgramme Director for MSc Data ScienceTeaches ST446, ST449 and ST498

Room: COL.5.05Email: m.vojnovic@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7107 5146

Data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, game theory, multi-agent systems, information networks.

Professor Hao XingProgramme Director for MSc Quantitative Methods for Risk Management (MT only, joint with Dr Beatrice Acciaio)Teaches ST429 and ST448

Room: COL.5.09Email: H.Xing@lse.ac.ukTel: 020 7955 7629

Stochastic analysis, analysis of differential equations, stochastic control and their applications to finance and insurance; economic models of interacting agents.

Prof Qiwei YaoRoom: COL.7.16

Email: Q.Yao@lse.ac.uk Tel: 020 7955 6767

Time series analysis; factor modelling and dimension reduction; nonparametric regression; spatial and temporal modelling; financial econometrics.

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We are launching a new app, the LSE student Hub, which will be available on iOS, Android and an online web app, from September onwards.

The Student Hub lets you:

Organise Your timetable, events and key academic dates all in one place.

CollaborateConnect with friends, peers and the LSE community.

DiscoverFind your way around with the campus map and stay up to date with news and events from around the School.

LSE Hub

Many students felt that they were missing out

- simply because they weren’t informed. The Student Hub solves that problem! Using the app, us students can get informed about events happening at LSE more than before.

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LCH Lincoln Chambers5LF 5 Lincoln’s Inn Fields32L 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields35L 35 Lincoln’s Inn FieldsMAR The Marshall Building

(44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields)50L 50 Lincoln’s Inn Fields LRB Lionel Robbins Building,

Library and The Womens LibraryNAB New Academic BuildingOLD Old Building PAR Parish Hall

PEA Peacock Theatre POR 1 Portsmouth StreetQUE Queens House SAR Sardinia HouseSAW Saw Swee Hock

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All buildings have wheelchair access and lifts, except , 95A, KGS, KSW*, 5LF, 50L, POR* and SHF.*KSW 20 Kingsway (Language Centre only), *POR 1 Portsmouth Street (Shop only).

Disabled AccessAfter 6.30pm, please call Security Control on 020 7955 6200 to ensure that any disabled access doors are open. Also see: Accessibility map [PDF] For access to 20 Kingsway, please call security staff on 020 7955 6200 to set up the portable ramp in the entrance foyer.

Access Guides to LSE buildingsDisabledGo have produced detailed access guides to the LSE campus and residences, and route maps between key locations. These access guides, and route maps, are now available online.

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95 Aldwych 95AAldwych House Aldwych ALD Centre Building Redevelopment Clement House Aldwych CLMColumbia House Aldwych COLConnaught House Aldwych CONCowdray House Portugal Street COWKing’s Chambers Portugal Street KGS1 Kingsway 1KW20 Kingsway KSWLakatos Building Portugal Street LAKLincoln Chambers Portsmouth Street LCH5 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 5LF32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 32L35 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 35L50 Lincoln’s Inn Fields Portsmouth Street 50LLionel Robbins Building, Library LRB and LSE Research Lab Portugal Street

Marshall Building 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields New Academic Building Lincoln’s Inn Fields NABOld Building Houghton Street OLDParish Hall Sheffield Street PAR Peacock Theatre Portugal Street PEA1 Portsmouth Street PORQueens House Lincoln’s Inn Fields QUESardinia House Sardinia Street SARSaw Swee Hock Student Centre Sheffield Street SAWSheffield Street SHFSt Clement’s Clare Market STC Tower One Clement’s Inn TW1Tower Two Clement’s Inn TW2Tower Three Clement’s Inn TW3

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Campus MapThe geography of the School can seem complicated at first, especially with all the building works going on around campus, but you will find direction signs spread around the buildings. This map will also help you find your way.

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